"These actions, too, must be performed, O Partha, by abandoning attachment and the fruits. This is my firm and highest opinion." When an action comes before a person as a duty, they should perform it with alertness and promptness, abandoning the fruit and attachment. Duty. In karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Because where action has no relation to its fruit, the relation is only with performing it to please Him, it connects with that. Therefore, it does not happen that this action is big or this action is small. The one with whom the relation is connected, the greater He is, the greater any action is. If it is an insignificant person, then no matter how big the action is, the action will become insignificant because of the person concerned. Therefore, a selfless karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → yogi yogi 1) A person who has mastered the art of yog. 2) A person who has attained siddh-dashã and other extraordinary powers. Tap to open in glossary → An action appearing big or small is seen only because of the desire for the fruit. Whereas in karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → In reality, depending on the purpose for which the action is dedicated, meaning whom you are doing it to please, it certainly becomes small or big by that measure. Performing action can be for fulfilling attachment, and it can also be for freeing oneself from attachment. It depends on what the silent intention of your heart is. Whatever action or activity a karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → yogi yogi 1) A person who has mastered the art of yog. 2) A person who has attained siddh-dashã and other extraordinary powers. Tap to open in glossary → "For the sage who wishes to ascend to yoga, action is said to be the means. Not by non-performance of actions does a man man Mind. One of the four antah-karans, with the function of (pronounced mun) generating thoughts and desires, and governing all of the indriyas. Tap to open in glossary → By performing action or effort to fulfill one's selfish or worldly silent intention, the attachment to performing action and its fruit increases and worsens. Therefore, a karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → yogi yogi 1) A person who has mastered the art of yog. 2) A person who has attained siddh-dashã and other extraordinary powers. Tap to open in glossary → But they do it solely for the service or pleasure of God or His true devotee. For a karma karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → yogi yogi 1) A person who has mastered the art of yog. 2) A person who has attained siddh-dashã and other extraordinary powers. Tap to open in glossary → Therefore, their attachment or aversion towards action is easily removed. In attaining God, only attachment to the world is an obstacle; action or activity is not an obstacle. Hence, as attachment is removed, the seeker automatically begins to experience God. Attachment does not let one move forward. On the contrary, action moves one forward. Sometimes action becomes a form of sadhana. If there is attachment, no matter how many years pass, one remains right there. The attachments of the heart do not let a person progress spiritually. They do not let development happen. Attachment... In that, stability of the causal body is mentioned, right? Stability of the causal body. The activity of the causal body means grasp. There is some firmness in the causal body, right? Meaning, faith in God comes from a grasp. And if something of the world is grasped, if a nature is grasped, then that is the work of the causal body. Similarly, faith in God is something to be grasped. So if that is grasped, then it is said to be a good work of the causal body. Firmness of conviction happens only in the causal body. It happens in the jiva. Action or activity is not an obstacle; only its attachment is the obstacle. Similarly, attachment to objects is the obstacle. Attachment to objects is the obstacle; the object is not the obstacle. Even so, the abandonment of objects is prescribed in the scriptures, whether it is gold or a woman or... The probability is higher. In the world, in those scriptures, women and wealth are criticized more. Meaning, women and wealth do not stop him. But his attachment to them is what stops him. But women and wealth are such objects, that everyone gets attached. If there is proximity, attachment happens. No one can escape from that. Maharaj said that gold and women are such objects. So that object—otherwise, if the object were the obstacle, then King Janaka and all such great ones, and during Maharaj's time there were great rulers, who were running kingdoms. They had relations with wealth, women, and all. Then how could their liberation happen? It is not like that. Meaning, those objects make a home inside, for that reason, and they do make a home. Mostly. Therefore, to warn the world, to warn them, "Brother, you stay away from this, from the object." Maharaj has also said in the first Vachanamrut of Sarangpur that to conquer the senses, one should keep a disconnection from the sense objects. If one keeps a disconnection from the object, then... One who conquers the sense objects, who completely conquers the sense objects, has conquered the world. "Who has conquered the world? One who has conquered the mind." But for the mind, Maharaj interpreted it to mean that one who has thoroughly abandoned the five sense objects is said to have conquered the mind. If one keeps running and plunging into the five sense objects, and keeps any amount of other renunciation, they cannot be said to have conquered the mind. In reality, the ultimate bondage is of the five sense objects only. Bondage happens because of the five sense objects. Therefore, their attachment or aversion towards action is easily removed. In attaining God, only attachment to the world is an obstacle; action or activity is not an obstacle. Activity... activity is sadhana for him. When we perform devotion, it is in the form of activity. So that is a means to please God. If one does not do it, on the contrary, God would not even be pleased. Meaning, activity is sadhana as well, and activity is bondage as well. That... "Except for action performed for the sake of sacrifice, this world is bound by action." An activity performed without keeping God as the target, but keeping some other target, becomes binding. "The righteous who eat the remnants of the sacrifice are freed from all sins." Sacrifice is indeed Vishnu Vishnu The dev of sustenance. Part of the trimurti. He lives in Vaikunth with his wife Lakshmi. Tap to open in glossary → Keeping Him as the target, keeping the target of pleasing Him, if any activity is performed, then that activity becomes a form of sacrifice and it bestows liberation. So activity is not binding in itself. But the attachment in it is binding. So one who has more attachment cannot do it just like that. Therefore, sages would leave all this and go to the forest. And even when they went to the forest, if there was attachment, it would emerge again and again. Therefore, rather than going to the forest, staying in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → If proper satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → By going to Rishikesh, there are facilities for certain things, there is suitability. There is no other disturbance. But just because there is no disturbance, it does not mean worship happens automatically; it happens only if one does it. And if there is firmness of mind, it happens even if one worships here. One who has mastered loving God does not need to go anywhere else. On the contrary, more love happens here; the means to love are here, not there. There, in the forest, are the means to disconnect. The means to love God are here in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → In attaining God, only attachment to the world is an obstacle; action or activity is not an obstacle. Hence, as attachment is removed, the seeker automatically begins to experience God. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. 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